Still digesting this, but I can't wrap my head around this in any way that doesn't come up the same: transmisogynistic and general misogynistic garbage. Feel free to disagree in the comments if you're a trans woman, non-binary, or, for the non-trans misogyny, a cis woman.

TW: forced surgery, transmisogyny, misogyny, rape, kidnapping, suicide

* Forced feminization is at best complicated, but here it is filmed in such bright-yet-sterile care that it seems like an indulgence, like the filmmakers found it artful. It seems as though both the enforcement and the feminization are felt to be horrors. While being wrongfully altered surgically to another gender is terrifying, it's hard not to see this also as a depiction of femininity as…

they had me in the first half with all that voyeuristic male gazing i’m not gonna lie, but the twist left me with a TON of questions in regards to the complex gender politics. feel free to discuss in the comments — i’d love to read some (respectful!!!) opinions to help me figure this film out, especially from non-cis folk!

-because of almodovar’s gay identity & strong track record of making LGBTQ works, is this a post-gender film? if so, does that excuse the (in my opinion) unnecessarily graphic rape scenes?  
-what are the implications of the punishment of every single character? does it mean everyone was wrong? or does it simply mean that the film is not meant to…